{"product_id":"crafting-gender-9780822331704","title":"Crafting Gender","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInitiates a gender-based framework for analyzing Latin American and Caribbean folk art. Exploring the roles of women as artists and consumers in specific cultural contexts, this title looks at a range of artistic forms from across Latin America, including Colombian molas (textiles), Andean weavings, Mexican ceramics, Mayan hipiles (dresses).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCrafting Gender \u003c\/i\u003edeftly fills a gaping hole in gender studies by providing a rich body of information on women’s traditional arts. Exploring the distinctions between art, ‘folk art,’ and just plain work in a great variety of cultures, the authors illuminate social context, belief systems, aesthetics, and technique, expanding the field to areas not well known outside of academia and Latin America. Feminists, artists, and scholars will find much material in Eli Bartra’s book with which to mold and weave their own forms.”—\u003cb\u003eLucy R. Lippard\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Crafting Gender\u003c\/i\u003e is an original collection that presents in one volume several subjects generally treated separately, integrates them with a gender perspective, and offers an approach that is truly innovative.\"—\u003cb\u003eMarysa Navarro\u003c\/b\u003e, coauthor of\u003ci\u003e Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Restoring Women to History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations vii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Eli Bartra 1\u003cbr\u003e Always Something New: Changing Fashions in a \"Traditional Culture\" (Suriname) \/ Sally Price 17\u003cbr\u003e The Emergence of the \u003ci\u003eSanteras\u003c\/i\u003e: Renewed Strength for Traditional Puerto Rican Art (Puerto Rico) \/ Norma Valle 35\u003cbr\u003e Kuna Women's Art: Molas, Meaning, and Markets (Panama) \/ Mari Lyn Salvador 47\u003cbr\u003e Connections: Creative Expressions of Canelos Quichua women (Ecuador) \/ Dorothea Scott Whitten 73\u003cbr\u003e Engendering Clay: \u003ci\u003eLas Ceramistas\u003c\/i\u003e of Mata Ortiz (Mexico) \/ Eli Bartra 98\u003cbr\u003e Women's Folk Art in La Chamba, Colombia (Colombia) \/ Ronald J. Duncan 126\u003cbr\u003e The Mapuche Craftswomen (Argentina) \/ Dolores Juliano 155\u003cbr\u003e Women's Prayers: The Aesthetics and Meaning of Female Votive Paintings in Chalma (Mexico) \/ María J. Rodríguez-Shadow 169\u003cbr\u003e Earth Magic: The Legacy of Teodora Blanco (Mexico) \/ Betty LaDuke 197\u003cbr\u003e Tastes, Colors, and Techniques in Embroidered Mayan Female Costumes (Mexico) \/ Lourdes Rejón Patrón 220\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 237\u003cbr\u003e Index 241","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406033297751,"sku":"9780822331704","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822331704.jpg?v=1730494313","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crafting-gender-9780822331704","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}